Ooh, don't know what happened there, but I was going to add, he should stop by Booman while he's at it.  They've a lovely "Russia is going to take over Georgia and Ukraine and we can do nothing about it because they have all the oil" diary on the FP.

I'd do it, but I'm at the end of my rope, in no mood to be polite.

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.